Part One: The First Fifty Years: Buck Fanshaw's Funeral / Mark Twain
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte
The Blue Hotel / Stephen Crane
The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo / Gertrude Atherton
The Reformation of Calliope / O. Henry
All Gold Canyon / Jack London
The Honk-Honk Breed / Stewart Edward White
The Trouble Man / Eugene Manlove Rhodes
From Missouri / Zane Grey
Ananias Green / B.M. Bower
The Hold-up / Clarence E. Mulford
Science at Heart's Desire / Emerson Hough
Last Warning / William Macleod Raine
The Weight of Obligation / Rex Beach
Dust Storm / Max Brand Part Two: The Second Fifty Years: Top Hand / Luke Short
High Wind / Ernest Haycock
The Gift of Cochise / Louis L'Amour
First Principal / A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
I Woke Up Wicked / Dorothy M. Johnson
The Women at Apache Wells / John Jakes
The Boy Who Smiled / Elmore Leonard
Hired Gun / William R. Cox
Due Process / Steve Frazee
Riverboat Fighter / Brian Garfield
The Hanging Man / Bill Pronzini
The Patriach of Gunsight Flat / Wayne D. Overholser
Sweet Cactus Wine / Marcia Muller